Does nobody hand in lost property any more?

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I've seen three 'lost property' posts on Facebook and it's not even 8am. All things found out and about, and asking people to share to 'reunite' the items with their owners.

The last is a child's wallet with money in it, found in a shop. Try bloody leaving it in the shop! Far more likely to find it there than from some person on FB. Others were items found at a park near a visitors centre, and on a train.

Seem to be seeing it more and more lately, and just don't understand why you wouldn't hand it in (maybe, maybe if you are in the middle of nowhere and there's nowhere sensible to hand it in I can understand).

AIBU to find this mildly irritating?

A lot of police forces won't accept lost property any more, so putting it on Facebook is the best way of finding the owner

Years ago, hubby was on his way to work in London and found a wallet on the pavement near London Bridge station. Not thinking, he brought it home. There were several loyalty cards, £50 in cash and a business card for a man in Denver. I rang this man and asked if he knew the owner of the wallet and if he could contact them and pass along my details. He did, and turns out she was a nun who'd recently moved here from Rome. I arranged for her to find hubby at the train station and he returned her wallet. She had bought thank you gifts and we kept in touch for a while, before life just got too busy and we lost contact.

Most stores here keep a record of lost property in a book. A couple of years ago, I found $243 on the floor at the grocery store. I turned it in at the customer service desk, and they wrote it in the book, along with my name and phone number.

No one claimed it after 30 days, and they called me and told me I could have the money.

It does work sometimes, I went to the local shops and saw messages all over the the place saying someone had lost an iPad, treasured baby photos etc., got in and saw a message on the local FB group saying someone had found one in the same road so put them in touch and they got it back.
The woman who found it didn't live round here and it was late at night so nowhere to hand it in to.

YANBU.

If I'd lost something the places I'd check would be where I last remembered having it, and the nearest police station. Wouldn't know where to begin to find the pages it could be posted on Facebook. Better to hand it in and then post on facebook if you're into social media and want to get the word out that way too.

Obviously it depends on the circumstances, e.g. it makes sense to post about a much-loved cuddly toy that's been dropped in the road on a local mums' group on FB, or whatever. But you see people posting things that have been found in obvious locations (e.g. something left in a cafe) which the person will come back and look for at that location, or things like purses where there's identifying information inside - just hand it in to the police who can contact the person directly! THAT'S when people are just doing it to get attention.

I lost my phone. It was locked so the person couldn't call my home number or anything. I had a picture of the kids on lock screen. She put a photo on local FB mums group. I wasn't even a member but people from school, staff at nursery, friend from night class and neighbours all saw it. They contacted me on landline, by email and by knocking on the door. I was v grateful and the finder got a lovely bottle of . Probably better than Police in those circs.

I was getting passports signed in the Garda station (Ireland) and the man behind me (English accent)was handing in a wad of cash he had found on the ground at a taxi rank the night before. No fan fare. Though I don't think anyone in my town would think to check with the guards if they lost money....

I found a wallet with a gents navy ID card money and credit cards on the Gatwick shuttle bus on our way home from holiday
I contacted the navy recruitment Office by looking for the number on line and told them that I had found a wallet with the gents name in it gave them my number for him to contact me
within 15 mins the man rang me and as we were on the motorway on our way home we met up at the services and I gave him it back
He was very grateful as apparently losing your ID is serious stuff and he would have been in trouble if he had reported it lost

I once found an envelope that contained 2 passports in it near the train station (it has snowed so was nearly covered). I tried to hand it in there but they didn't want anything to do with it. So I brought it home and called the "next of kin" number from the back. A guy answered and I asked if they knew x, he said yeah and I explained and he seemed a bit pee'd off that he was down as next of kin. Anyhow he passed the message on and the owner rang my and started having a go at me "why didn't I tell him he'd dropped them?" Err cos I didn't see you do so. Anyhow he came and picked them up and was a bit better mannered in person, but geez! try to do a nice thing for someone.